ANU moves closer to fracture proof phone screens
0ANU moves closer to fracture-proof phone screens.
Dr Charles Le Losq at the Australian National University.
The Australian National University (ANU) and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris have completed a study on glass that could be crucial in the development of shatter-proof phone screens.
New knowledge garnered from the study, based on experiments and computer modelling, could be put to use by phone manufacturers to improve the resistance of glass to fracturing, ANU has said.
Dr Charles Le Losq from ANU told ZDNet that researchers worked on a type of glass called alumino-silicate, a mixture of aluminium and silicon oxide. Alumino-silicate is commonly used in the screens of mobile devices, including the Gorilla Glass used in Samsung's Galaxy S8.